THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOODExperimental, United States of America, 2018
Director: Evans Daniel
3:03 min

There goes the neighborhood captures the visual experience of one year of gentrification in Portland, Oregon as old homes are leveled to make way for newcomers with money. The film is a time capsule of Portland in the 2010s, showing what is was, and what is was in the process of becoming.

Hex is an augmented structure which bounds different mediums such as, projection mapping and 3D printing together. It takes inspiration from a visual style which also showed itself in architecture, visual arts and design, Art Deco. Art Deco, has appeared in the early 1920’s. It includes radial patterns with sunlight as a symbol of the light of the drowning era, and geometry as a symbol of the machinery and technology. Hex embraces Art Deco’s relative simplicity, planarity, symmetry and unvaried repetition elements and combines them on a machine made object with projection mapping technology.
By combining these elements Hex aims to give audience an audiovisual experiment in the atmosphere of Art Deco.

AFRIKA IS A COUNTRYExperimental, United States of America, 2018
Director: Kroon Frances3:03 min

An allegorical piece that uses symbolism to tell a narrative about the willful blindness of the “first world” and how inadvertently we feed off the riches of developing countries to maintain the lifestyle we take for granted.

Starting from a footage recorded in a busy urban environment, still frames are extracted and regularly overlaid into the video. The resulting hybrid image merges people’s positions according to different temporalities: each passer-by leaves the trace of his path as he joins the static silhouettes already left by the others. These improbable meetings materialize a timeless structure that progressively fills-up the available space: the image is transformed, denatured, and tends towards abstraction. Thus sculpted by time, the produced forms reveal the dialogue between humans and the architecture that channels their movement.

Not only officer Ellen Ripley, Princess Leia Organa and police chief Marge Gunderson notice a strange emptiness. Across different genres and eras of Western film history, female protagonists from 70 well-known movies set out in search of each other.

A scream of raven, a woman plunges. Underwater algae colonized the walls. Unexpected and improbable graffiti indicate a possible human existence. In this layer of algae and greenish vegetable cluster, the word OCEANS, gives the title of this video. The spectator is surprised by a sensation of suffocation and oppression. At one and the same time an allegory of the human condition enjoining us to leave the frame and the anxiety of a possible future where the man would finish destroying his own natural resources.

NOT MY TYPEExperimental, Germany, 2017
Director: Gockell Gerd3:00 min

An experimental animation about the history of typography, print media and a mosquito experiencing Shakespeares most famous quote.